EVEREST EXPEDITION
CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT.
•f. LONDON, June 25. Everest dispatches state ■*» Ue native porters saw Mallory ““ uVae on June 7 going strongly the summit. They had appar®«ly attained 28,001) feet on the morning of the eight; after that there v a O news of them, though other members of the expedition endeavJWed, by signals and flares, to obtain Bdings. CoL. Norton expresses the opinion ‘hat the tragedy was due to a simple •mountaineering accident, and not to the weather.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19048, 27 June 1924, Page 11
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81EVEREST EXPEDITION Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19048, 27 June 1924, Page 11
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